TUSCALOOSA,
Alabama — The rumors were flying, but Texas president Bill Powers said they were all bunk.

Speaking
at a news conference in Austin after Mack
Brown officially announced his resignation, Powers was asked about any
contact with Alabama coach Nick Saban.

"You
read in the newspapers that several months ago there was some contact with his
agent," Powers said in the news conference televised on ESPNEWS. "I think that's behind us. I think a lot has been made about that casual
contact of that sort. That happens, I think. That's all behind us."

He
is referencing the Associated Press report that said Texas regents reached out
to Jimmy Sexton, Saban's agent, in
January.

"Other
than that, I have had no contact with Nick Saban or his agent or any
intermediaries. I don't know Nick Saban. So all of those rumors — the lunches,
the meetings — they are simply groundless."